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Churchill and the Archangel Fiasco
Taylor and Francis 1992; US$ 144.00This third volume in Michael Kettle's series on Allied intervention in the Russian civil war, begins at the point when small-scale Allied intervention in Bolshevik-overrun Russia had failed, but had succeeded in covering the formation of some anti-Bolshevik White groups sympathetic to allied aid. Written on a panoramic basis which includes detailed... more...
Tiny Revolutions in Russia
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 49.95This book presents a large collection of anecdotes and jokes from different periods of the 20th century. Anecdotes and jokes were a hidden form of discursive communication in the Soviet era, lampooning official practices and acting as a confidential form of self-affirmation. They were not necessarily anti-Soviet, by their very nature both criticising... more...
The Leader Cult In Communist Dictatorships
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 120.00The first book to analyze the distinct leader cults that flourished in the era of 'High Stalinism' as an integral part of the system of dictatorial rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Fifteen studies explore the way in which these cults were established, their function and operation, their dissemination and reception, the place of the cults... more...
Holocaust in the Soviet Union
University of Nebraska Press 2009; US$ 45.00The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (194145). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods... more...
Western Intelligence and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 198.00In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It was an event of major historic and global dimensions, yet it took the entire world totally by suprise. In this book, the authors interview dozens of people who dealt with Soviet affairs in the 1980s, all of who admit to having been caught off guard. more...
Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95One of the few English language studies to focus on the male experiences, this book addresses the important questions raised by the rise and fall of the Soviet experiment in transforming gender relations. Issues covered include; * the paternal role * women as breadwinners * men's loss of status at work * changing gender roles in the press * the... more...
Creating the New Soviet Woman
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 138.00This book explores the Soviet attempt to propagandise the 'new Soviet woman' through the magazines Rabotnitsa and Krest'yanka from the 1920s to the end of the Stalin era. Balancing work and family did not prove easy in a climate of shifting economic and demographic priorities, and the book charts the periodic changes made to the model. more...
Politics and the People in Revolutionary Russia
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 30.00An analysis of Russian democracys collapse in 1917 through the experiences of ordinary people. more...
Life and Death in Besieged Leningrad, 1941-1944
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00From 1941-1944 Leningrad saw by far the largest-scale famine ever to occur in a developed society. This book examines the nature and consequences of the extreme conditions created by the German blockade of Leningrad between September 1941 and January 1944. Using declassified documents from Party and State archives in Moscow and St Petersburg and interviews... more...
Surviving Freedom
University of California Press 2003; US$ 12.95In 1941, as a Red Army soldier fighting the Nazis on the Belarussian front, Janusz Bardach was arrested, court-martialed, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. Twenty-two years old, he had committed no crime. He was one of millions swept up in the reign of terror that Stalin perpetrated on his own people. In the critically acclaimed Man Is Wolf... more...









